In summary Long-duration energy storage technologies will be an integral part of California’s renewable energy and climate change planning. By Julia Prochnik, Special to CalMatters Julia Prochnik is executive director of the , julia@jasenergies.com. The headlines are grim. Texas’ power grid fails in the midst of a deadly cold snap, putting millions at risk. A historic heat wave brings California’s power grid to its knees, putting millions at risk. Two massive states with two distinctly different approaches to energy, yet still facing a similar outcome: failure and blackouts. In both cases the cause is the same, a failure to plan for extraordinary climate events that are becoming all too ordinary.